I'm using Veeam Backup and Replication 5.0 hosted on a physical server running windows server 2003r2 x64. Veeam backs up my two vmware hosts to an iSCSI box (supermicro chasis with 5x 1tb drives running OpenFiler OS) via one of the vmware hosts. I have two vmware hosts - one running esxi 4.1, the other running vpshere 5.0.

I'm not confident at all in the OpenFiler box as it is using a software raid5 config for the iSCSI setup. I've had to rebuild the array once already and I've only been in charge of it since December. I don't like how the backups currently run - eg: Veeam runs on a physical server and grabs the vm's from vmhost1 which get backed up to the iSCSI via a vmfs mountpoint on vmhost1. Seems like too many trips across the network are being made and is also putting a lot of network traffic through vmhost1.

Aside from getting a proper NAS box, how would I go about mounting the iSCSI to my physical Veeam server (currently running server 2003r2 x64, soon to be a new physical server 2008r2 box)?

I use local storage for my VMs and use network mode when backing up to my target. My backup window is setup for a time that network traffic is minimal. I think you are correct John - I believe the proxy became a feature in v6.

I use local storage for my VMs and use network mode when backing up to my target. My backup window is setup for a time that network traffic is minimal. I think you are correct John - I believe the proxy became a feature in v6.

Yep its a v6 thing. (Just did an upgrade for a client last week).

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